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Private Law 47–6
granting additional pension to Mary Lincoln.
Approved February 2, 1882
Statutory text
An Act
granting additional pension to Mary Lincoln.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Mary Lincoln whose name is now on the roll as the widow of Abraham Lincoln, deceased, late President of the United States, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars forthwith,
Pension.
as pension money, in addition to any sum that may have accrued
16 Stat., 653.
on her existing pension under the act of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy; and from and after the passage of this act the Secretary of the Interior is directed to pay to the said Mary Lincoln, in lieu of the pension she is now receiving under the act aforesaid, a pension at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum during the remainder of her natural life.
Approved, February 2, 1882.